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West Africa

Senegal
Crucial September Meeting for Miferso

A crucial encounter will be held in Dakar in September between the potential partners of the rail and port components [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Mauritania
Rio Narcea to Develop Tasiast

The Spanish mining firm Rio Narceo Gold Mines has taken over the Canadian company Defiance Mining Corp., which owns the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Guinea
After Siguiri, Soumah Takes on RusAl

Mines minister Alpha Mady Soumah appears intent on modifying mining agreements Guinea signed in 2001 with RusAl for management of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Liberia
Monrovia to Supply China

The Liberian government recently signed an agreement to deliver iron [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Ghana
Costs Soar for Aluworks

Since the Volta Aluminium Company was closed down several months [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Guinea
Talks on Siguiri Bogged Down

According to AMI sources, talks between mines minister Alpha Mady [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Mauritania
World Bank to Promote Mines

The World Bank wants to increase its activity in Mauritania's [...]

Subscribers only Mining 13.07.2004

Mauritania
ELY OULD SNEIDA

Former right-hand man to colonel Khouna Ould Haidallah, the ex-president [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.07.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Acreage in Return for Intelligence

Africa Energy Intelligence understands that efforts deployed by South Africa's foreign ministry and intelligence agencies to warn Equatorial Guinea about [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Nigeria
Conoil in Financial Wrangle

As Nigeria's Conoil group struggles to push its output beyond the 50,000 bdp mark, part of its development budget could be tied up in costly litigation with France's CGG.

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Equatorial Guinea
LNG Partners Eye New Reserves

The Equatorial Guinea government and U.S. firm Marathon are casting eyes at the reserves of neighboring countries for supplies for their future LNG plant at Punta Europa.

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Green Light for Okume/Oveng

Regularly postponed, the development of the northern part of Amerada Hess' block G will begin in coming weeks.

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Equatorial Guinea
Rather Too Wary

Keeping keen watch on its territorial waters since the abortive putsch in March, Equatorial Guinea rather overdid things last week [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Niger
TG/CNPC Compromise in Sight

Last month's talks between the Canadian junior TG World Energy [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Nigeria | clyde & Co
Halliburton's Man in Paris

Halliburton has asked Simon Ndiaye, a lawyer in the Paris [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Nigeria | Nnpc
Dropping OPEC Quota

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has told its six joint [...]

Subscribers only Energy 06.07.2004

Guinea
Terms for Getting Siguiri Back on Track

According to our sources, Guinea's government laid down its conditions to AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. last week for getting operations at [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Burkina Faso
Taparko-Bouroum to Produce in Late 2005

High River Gold Mines completed a financieal feasibility study on developing the Taparko-Bouroum gold project on June 15. The results [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Sierra Leone
Chill Between Government and Koidu

Presented as a model of mining development in Sierra Leone, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Guinea
Offset Kicked Out of Dian Dian

The Offset group from the United Arab Emirates which signed [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Guinea
Rio Tinto Pulls Out of CBG

Pursing its policy of disposing of non-strategic assets, the wholly-owned [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Nigeria
BUA Buys Out Delta Steel Co.

Nigeria's state-owned Delta Steel Company has been sold to BUA [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Diamond Raises Funds

The Sierra Leone Diamond Company has raised $1.1 million from [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Ghana | Accra
6th WAM - West African International Mining Exhibition and Conference

As part of West Africa Industrial Week that will be [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.06.2004

Nigeria, United States
Jack Stanley

Former head of Kellog Brown & Root (KBR), an affiliate of Halliburton that took part in building the NLNG plant [...]

Subscribers only Energy 22.06.2004

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